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Darryl Sutter doesn’t like hybrid icing

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Add Kings head coach Darryl Sutter to the list of hockey people who don’t like hybrid icing.

“The [old] rule’s fine,” Sutter said, per LA Kings Insider. “I don’t know why, quite honest, why we…change it. The rule’s fine. I know everybody thinks, they say, ‘Oh, this guy got hurt,’ or ‘this guy got hurt.’ You can count on one hand how many in the last five years. The players are very respectful of the rule now. We keep wanting to put rules in just because somebody wants to say, ‘I made this rule. It was my rule.’ I’m not for that at all.”

The NHL is experimenting with hybrid icing during the preseason, after which the players will vote on whether to keep it for the regular season.

At this point, we’d wager the players will choose to keep the old rule, which should make Sutter -- as well as Jason Chimera and Lou Lamoriello -- happy.

Though maybe not Jim Rutherford.